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The question is: Is "social media" a “public utility” or a “media publisher”? Their “product” is distributed over the airwaves, which is currently regulated, and wires on utility poles, which is also currently regulated. On the other hand, newspapers, magazines and books are distributed on public roads and are not regulated as to content.

Content regulation is a slippery slope. Social media is ultimately controlled by the stockholders, user participation and competition. At the present time they have a winning combination AND an obvious political bias. So be it. Let them “censor”. If you don’t like their political bias then cancel your accounts, find another venue for your ideas. KEEP THE GOVERNMENT OUT OF IT.

On a separate but related question: The suppression of free speech on college campuses, they all rely on substantial public funding, federal and state. Elect people who will use that power to enforce free speech and ACTIVELY suppress violence and intimidation of any political opinion. Cut off the money from those that don’t. Do not give government backed student loans to institutions which do not comply.

NEWS FLASH: Jeff Sessions arrested in the lobby of the Department of Justice for loitering. Details to follow.

...Jared Holt works for the George Soros funded website Right Wing Watch.

Right Wing Watch says on its “About Page” the Soros funded group is a project of People For the American Way (PFAW) dedicated to monitoring and exposing the activities and rhetoric of right-wing activists and organizations in order to expose their extreme agenda.

People for the American Way says it is a progressive advocacy organization founded to fight right-wing extremism and to “defend constitutional values including free expression.”
Isn’t that rich?

George Soros is a major donor for People for the American Way.

The Soros-funded group pressured the far left tech giants to ban Alex Jones and Infowars, a top pro-Trump website, just weeks before the 2018 election.

AFAIK, these scooter rental companies are just that, private companies. Not agencies or initiatives of the State of California or California cities. In fact, at least a couple of cities are cracking...